Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
* No technique works if it isn't used.
Niven's laws
* Ethics change with technology.
* "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold